Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from northern Middlesex County manned a desk full of nomination petitions at the doorway. One reporter, somewhat uncharitably, said the farmer was "dressed in a smartly-cut Robert Hall suit." Sitting next to the farmer was a cripple, who had a slick DA hair-cut and a black leather jacket. His crutches lay on the floor. "We've got to get Governor Wallace on the ballot now," he said, pounding his fists. "And then the fight isn't over. It isn't over on November Fifth either. This fight is just beginning," he said, bouncing back and forth...
...erecting Rhenish castles and commissioning steam yachts, a book such as this guide to posh deserves the Jay Gould Award for Public Service. It is already a bestseller-which gives Stephen Birmingham, author of Our Crowd, the distinction of having two books on the Big List simultaneously. The dust jacket of The Right People describes it as "an important, authoritative work of serious social comment." Fortunately, this is nonsense. The Right People is malicious storytelling, leavened by gossip, and puts the well-born and well-climbed of the U.S. back to work at their appointed task of being funny...
...Bobby. She knelt over him, whispering. His lips moved. She rose and tried to wave back the crush. Dick Tuck blew a whistle. The crowd began to give way. Someone clamped an ice pack to Kennedy's bleeding head, and someone else made a pillow of a suit jacket. His blue and white striped tie was off, his shirt open, the rosary clutched to his hairy chest. An aide took off his shoes...
...Arab headgear and Western jacket and tie, Bishara Sirhan received a TIME correspondent and observed that Sirhan had been the best-behaved of his children. "I don't know," he said, "how this happened and I don't know who pushed him to do this." Would he now go to the U.S.? He thought not. "I raised him to love. I tell you frankly: now I am against...
William Surface's jacket-portrait reminded me of the face of an Alabama State Trooper I once watched block a quiet, unpublicized attempt at school desegregation by young children. I had been working for The Southern Courier; it was the last thing I remembered from the South; and it happened only three days before I started my freshman year at Harvard. Surface has the same single-minded resolve as the trooper to enforce laws arrogantly for the law's sake...